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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 3h

INBOX: ACE Innamorato announces 622 housed in 500 days as part of 500 in 500.

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1h

*pre-9/11, the Pgh airport had the AirMall, which was accessible to non-flyers, and guaranteed prices in line with regular retail. The idea was to come into the airport & shop while you awaited whoever you were picking up.

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1h

had a kit of parts for its mall stores, but prominent locations—eg the airport*—had custom versions of the same concept, designed locally, not by corporate (reviewed & approved, of course).

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1h

The local Wendy's franchisee in Pittsburgh in the '80s hired prominent, (relatively) edgy architects to design its stores. One long since ceased being a Wendy's, but the other is now the standard box (I seem to recall at least 1 other, but I can't place it).

Circa 2000, Verizon Wireless...

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2h

Imagining the condolence telegram to the donkey's mother back home in Hesse.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 3h

*with all sorts of caveats about what they really want, what they're able to understand about what they want, what backstage sex with a rock star is likely to be like, and then the part where lots of rock stars take advantage, pressure, and rape.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 3h

Almost every groupie ages out, but the stars stay stars, and I assume lots of them continue to want sex on the road long after teens have any interest in them. Is there some transition where the manager hires hookers to feed their egos, then eventually they just accept the reality?

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 3h

I'd love to read an honest assessment from a rock star's POV of the change over time. Like, a groupie genuinely wants sex* with a young heartthrob. But before long, the star isn't so young, while (some) groupies still are. And eventually they're just famous middle-aged guys that no teen finds sexy.

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 5h

the catastrophe of anthropomorphism

Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 5h

The phrase "they’re seeing what they want to see, not what’s there" is about the best description of how people react to ChatGPT and other LLMs: it's not just bots hallucinating, it's people too.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7h

this should be so embarrassing for AI boosters - a claim that ChatGPT had “found” solutions to longstanding maths problems: turned out not that it had SOLVED them but had found solutions by googling for them

they’re seeing what they want to see, not what’s there

garymarcus.substack.com/p/erdosgate

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 4h

It's funny, I still think of her as new, and then this weekend I made a recipe of hers from I think 2014.

I feel like she had a real slow burn of a rise: basic, unassuming recipes, then a few brilliant ones, then some real subversion of expectations, and suddenly she's all but the face of the brand

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Jay @jaynahson.bsky.social · 8h

Mills has the same tattoo, but is able to hide it much easier being in her 70’s and dressing more modestly.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 15h

It’s like ppl who get mad that red has ended up denoting Republicans in the US.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

2028 D primary voters are going to flock to the candidate that most loudly and credibly promises to destroy all the works of the current guy and send him to prison.

The New York Times editorial board and various billionaires will hatch increasingly zany schemes to stop that, and fail.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 23h

Dean Baker’s solution to US healthcare costs would shake him to his core.

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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 1d

my first story back as a freelancer is a fun one: a quick hit for @science.org about the electrostatic tricks that parasitic worms take to infect their hosts... featuring very cool videos! 🧪

Bull’s-eye! Static electricity pulls worm through air to its insect victim

Electrostatic charges may help roundworms infect a wide variety of hosts

www.science.org

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1d

He never stopped saying "weird". That's a weird myth that sprang up, but he literally used the word in speeches the day before the election.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't personally advocate for strapping those two to chairs and shooting them into space, but I also wouldn't raise too much fuss, y'know?

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the surprise isn't that Manchin got elected*, it's that he didn't switch parties.

*ok, the reelection was arguably surprising, but 2018 was a good D year. If HRC won in '16, Manchin would've lost in '18

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

This morning’s cider donuts. Or what remain.

Photo of sugared donuts & donut holes on a wire rack over a sheet pan.

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

I did wonder. I actually didn’t realize that generated a notification, I did it to someone a couple weeks ago.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 2d

17 yo daughter made this on our walk:

A circle of autumnal beech leaves on top of a tree stump showing a gentle shift of colour going round the circle

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

Pirates should put this on a tshirt.

Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 2d

"I think you expect too much of your players, Charlie Brown." ~ Lucy van Pelt (Classic Peanuts - 1986) ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #Postseason

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

I’d say it’s still not clearly true, since “amphibious ships that can complete a 100 mile contested crossing“ is not a kind of ship known to exist. They have ships that can conceivably make the attack, or perhaps that could commence the attack.

JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

Right up until the parenthetical I was thinking you were talking about the Virgin and her Son.

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 2d

Gah!

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